Stones Quotes - Page 14

• The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fall, Air, Down And

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• That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Taverns, Way, Temples

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.228, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.

  Shuggie Otis

  Blood, Sweat, Tears

  "1970s R&B Man Shuggie Otis Is Ready for His 'Sneak Back'". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

  Peter Blegvad

  Song, Kids, Trying

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be saved or not. What I'm interested in is this: in the Victorian era, you could go there as an early cultural tourist and you were given a chisel to chip off a bit of the stones and take it with you. That's what you did in Victorian times.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Care, Eras

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that's the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Soccer, Team, Hippie

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

  Piers Anthony

  Mind, Library, Comfort

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• Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones

  Dana Reinhardt

  Lifts

  Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.164, Wendy Lamb Books

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• I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Heat, Bigs, Scales

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• Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Tree, Important, Insects

  Marlene Van Niekerk (2008). “The Way of the Women”, Abacus Software

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• From my fathers point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Father, Real, Government

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• And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?

  Julien Gracq

  Bed, Delight, Rage

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• The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.

  John Polson

  Talent, Film, Young

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• In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.

  Erik Fosnes Hansen

  Dream, Block, Night

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• I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!

  Edward Leedskalnin

  Block, Pyramids, Secret

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• Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I still couldn't escape a fundamental question: Why were those children out there in the first place? Where were the parents? Why didn't their mothers and fathers keep them inside? Those children should have been sitting at their desks in school, not running in the streets throwing stones at armed soldiers.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Mother, Running, Children

  Mosab Hassan Yousef (2011). “Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices”, p.158, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

  Martin Luther

  Yield, Wind, Touching

  Martin Luther, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Samuel Simon Schmucker (1860). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.215

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• I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

  Kellan Lutz

  Book, Rosetta Stone

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• Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

  Groucho Marx

  Precious Stones, Comedian, Gold

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.69, Da Capo Press

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• May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Dream, Wall

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• Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Commitment, Discipline

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• Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Rivers, Feelings, Crosses

  "Reflections on Leadership and Vision". Speech by Wang Gungwu. The Honorary Graduates' Speeches: 163rd Congregation, www4.hku.hk. 2002.

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• As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Good Man, Persons

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• I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Growing Up, Fall, Grieving

  Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub

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• A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

  Magha

  Men, Arrows, Mind

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